ELA+2+Lesson+5


 * Topic: School fun **

RI.2.2 - Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. RI.2.6 **-** Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. RL.2.1 - Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. RL.2.2 - Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. RL2.3 - Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. RL.2.5 -Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. RL.2.11 - Make connections between self, text, and the world around them (text, media, social interaction). RRF.2.3 **-** Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RRF.2.4**-** Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. W.2.3 - Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. SL.2.2 - Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. L.2.1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. L.2.1b - Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish).
 * Common Core standards: **

Students will be able to understand, recognize, apply, and analyze the following skills:
 * Suggested student objectives: **
 * Story structure
 * Visualize
 * Narrative/true story
 * Singular and plural nouns
 * Consonant blends


 * Suggested additional readings: **
 * __ Katie and the Class Pet __ by Fran Manushkin
 * __The Best Seat in Second Grade__ by Katharine Kenah
 * __The Best Teacher in Second Grade__ by Katharine Kenah
 * __The Class Pet from the Black Lagoon__ by Mike Thaler
 * __Pinky and Rex and the Just - Right Pet__ by James Howe
 * __Nate the Great and the Fishy Prize__ by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
 * __Pet Show!__ by Ezra Jack Keats
 * __Henry and Mudge and Annie's Perfect Pet: the twentieth book of their adventures__ by Cynthia Rylant
 * __Arthur's Pet Business__ by Marc Brown
 * __Arthur's New Puppy__ by Marc Brown
 * __Danitra Brown, Class Clown__ by Nikki Grimes
 * __A Fine, Fine School__ by Sharon Creech

Study Zone - graphic organizer for writing mysteries Oswego City School District - story elements matching game Harcourt School - interactive computer/writing activity about story elements Journeys lesson activities Scholastic - print/audiobook about veterinarians BookFlix - read - aloud about pets at a veterinarian BookFlix - read-aloud of That New Animal by Emily Jenkins Brainpopjr - video about plural nouns Brainpopjr - video about writing a paragraph Brainpopjr - video about story setting Brainpopjr - video about story plot Brainpopjr - video about consonants
 * Resource links: **

Student learning outcome: Identify the plot and main idea of a story that supports the theme. Duration: approximately 50 minutes Necessary materials//:// //Provided//:
 * Activities: **
 * Direct teaching theme graphic organizer
 * Guided practice theme graphic organizer
 * Guided practice theme graphic organizer
 * Answer key
 * Independent practice

//Not Provided//:
 * __Aesop's Fables__ by Jerry Pinkney
 * Chart paper
 * Markers
 * Lesson Plan

Teacher will introduce and define theme as the underlying message or lesson that the author is trying to tell the reader. Teacher will explain that the plot and main idea of stories help us to identify the theme. Teacher will also explain that today we will be reading fables that are stories with a very clear theme (the lesson or moral of a story). Teacher will present the blank, charted, theme graphic organizer (example provided in unit) before reading “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf” (p. 11) from __Aesop’s Fables__ by Jerry Pinkney. After reading the fable, teacher will identify the theme, “No one believes a liar,” for students. Teacher will explain that the plot details and the main idea of a story should support the theme of the story. Teacher will model charting the plot details that support this theme (Direct Teaching Teacher Graphic Organizer provided below in Teacher and Student Materials). For example: First, we know that the boy cried wolf twice when there was no wolf and the townspeople did not like the boy’s trick. Then a wolf really came and the boy cried wolf again. Next, the townspeople did not believe the boy and did not come. Finally, the wolf ate one of the sheep. All the main events in the plot tell a story that supports the theme that no one believes a liar. We can also identify the main idea, which should support the theme. By looking at the main events of the plot, teacher can identify the main idea as: “A shepherd boy lies about a wolf coming and no one believes him when the wolf really does come.” The plot and the main idea both support the theme. Ask: "How did I identify the plot and main idea that supported the theme?" Students should respond that you read the story and identified the problem and solution in the story. You also identified the main idea that supported the theme by looking at the important events related to the theme. Students and teacher will read “The Grasshopper and the Ants” (p. 12) from __Aesop’s Fables__ with the theme, “Don’t put off until tomorrow what should be done today.” We will identify the plot and main idea that supports this theme. We will complete Theme Graphic Organizer B together (see Guided Practice Student and Teacher Graphic Organizer below).
 * **DIRECT TEACHING**
 * Watch a Video Teacher Tip: Modeling **
 * ===THINK CHECK===
 * ===GUIDED PRACTICE===
 * ReadWorks - printable graphic organizer for theme/main idea/plot

Students will read “The Lion and the Mouse” (p. 41) from __Aesop’s Fables__ and identify the plot and main idea of the story that support the theme. (Student Independent Practice is provided below.) Note: You will need to provide your students with the story for Independent Practice.
 * ** ASSESSMENTS **
 * ===INDEPENDENT PRACTICE===
 * TIP:** You may choose to read “The Lion and the Mouse” aloud to students during the Independent Practice.

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